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[Misraq]

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The skunni nation is incubated by many external forces who hate the very being of Ethiopia. We as citizens paid a huge price due to the skunnni nations unabated evil intentions by serving external forces where we had to lose the sea access (which amounts to $billions of dollars of revenue and expenses), lose of peace when the skunni nation made sure installing the TPLF rag tag as its own puppet and so on.

We the citizens of Ethiopia had to endure a lot and our development index was hampered as a result of the skunni nations sabotage on our people. While Sudan was made to pay a price due to an active support of Mengistu on SPLA as a revenge, Egypt is on the loose. When the time comes, Egypt need to pay and we will need to avenge their evil did to us.

As to the skunnni nation, one shouldn't spend a bullet to destroy them. It is a fake nation that will be crumbled like a snow pile when a strong, unifying and economically viable government leads Ethiopia. Citezens of skunnni nation. this is not a declaration of war on you. If Jimmy el Conquistador is a leader of Ethiopia, I will unite my people, close my doors on you skunnnni parasites and allow only those who subscribe to Ethiopias endevor and melt you out without firing a single bullet. You are that week when it comes to your foundations

Jimmy el conquistador

[Zmeselo]

Emperor Yohannes, signed the treaty of Hewitt that ceded Western Eritrea and all the area near Massawa proper to Anglo-Egyptian power in an exact format Dejach Wube was ready to hand over that same area to the French colonizers in return for the French recognizing him as preeminent chief of Highland Tigray and its environs. Not to be outdone, Emperor Menelik signed the treaty of Wuchalie with the Italians that gave away the entire Eritrean land and in effect recognizing Eritrea as an Italian colony from there into eternity.

(For the treaty of Hewitt, see Haggai Erlich, "Ras Alula," page 43-48, for the treaty of Wuchalie, Chris Prouty, "Empress Taytu and Menelik II," page 60-61, For Wube and the French, see Abir, page 122)

Via Antonelli's courier, Menelik informed the King of Italy that he would like the Italian soldiers to occupy Asmara, in order to discourage the imperial pretensions of Mengesha Yohannes (the son of Emperor Yohannes).

There after,

added Menelik,

God will give me the throne that for many years I have had the right to have.

(See Prouty, page 61)

Ras Alula, did his bid:

You want the country to the River Mereb (meaning the whole Eritrea) to cultivate your gardens, to build your houses, to construct your churches? We can give it to you [And not to Menelik.]. Let the Italian soldiers come to Adwa, I shall come to meet them like friends.

And in trying to persuade the Italians not to make friendship with Menelik, Alula begged the Italians by saying,

And you, why do you need to look for distant friend? We are neighbors (meaning Eritrea and Tigray) and can serve each other. You went the road to be open and I want the road to be open. You should guard to the Mereb River and I will guard it to Gondar and even beyond Gondar. We must be able to go to the coast to trade in order that our country (meaning Tigray) would flourish, with the help of God, Menelik is too far to be of any use to you. Let us make friendship between us.

(See, Haggai Erlich, "Ras Alula,", page 164)

To top it all, Eritrea was further weakened after Ras Alula honchos with the blessing of the Ras conspired and incarcerated one of Eritrea's able Chiefs, Rasi Woldemichael Solomon of Hazega, and the aim was to be able to maintain their hold in the Eritrea highlands. By the 1890s, even those Eritreans who dared to fight Italian colonialism, like Lij Beyene Biru of the Adi Quala area, were incarcerated by Ras Alula, all in the hope that the Italians will be happy with this act of imprisonment and in return would respond with the much needed aid that expected to enable Alula & Co to save their beloved Tigray from ending up under the grip of Menelik.

At one point, Alula cleverly invited

the anti-Italian Lij Beyene for a meeting (Mr Hagai spelled it as Bayyana) and treacherously imprisoned him in the hope of getting a favor from General Baratieri who was then visiting Seraye at that time. Word got out to the castle of Ras Mengesha who was then in Mekele, and not to be outdone by Alula's contact to Baratieri, Mengesha and Ras Hagos came running to Adwa. Upon their arrival, Mengesha ordered Alula to hand over Lij Beyene to the Italians. Alula fearing that the Italians will give credit to Mengesha and not him, refused the hand over. In response to Alula's refusal, Mengesha sent Ras Hagos with an armed escort to Alula's camp, where they took custody of the rebel and delivered him to the Italians.

(See, Haggai Erlich, pages 174 & 180)

Dawit Wolde Giorgis, from his ethiopianist prism, had said:

Eritreans were the coast guards of the mainland. The major battles that are recorded in Ethiopian history except Adwa were in Eritrea and were fought by Eritreans most of the time. The battle-fields of Debaruwa, Gundet, Gura, Kufit, Saati, Dogali, and Koatit against the Sudan, Turkey, Egyptians, and the Italians are typical examples.

(See "Red Tears," page 74)

Btw, except the one in Debaruwa, all the others were fought within less than fifty years, 1870 to 1889.

Jasper Ridley points it out in Mussolini's Biography.

In his desperate act to hold power, Haile Sellassie now made a secret peace overture to Mussolini, sending a former Ethiopian Minister in Rome to contact the Italian consul in Djibouti. HE OFFERED TO SELL A LARGE PART OF EHTIOPIA TO ITALY FOR ONE AND HALF MILLIARD LIRA AND TO APPOINT SIX ITALIAN ADVISORS TO DIRECT THE POLICY OF HIS GOVERNMENT. MUSSOLINI SENT A COURTEOUS REPLY TO THE INTERMIEDIARY, EXPRESSING HIS PLEASURE THAT THE NEGUS HAD AT LAST DECIDED TO NEGOTAIT DIRECTLY WITH HIM; but he said the offer was UNACCEPTABLE.

(Emphasis mine, see J. Ridley, page 270)

[Abdisa]

Egypt hasn't done anything wrong to us. Our past and present Ethiopian leaders resented Egypt for being the largest recipient of US foreign aid in Africa, and the resentment turned into anger and hatred towards Egypt that damming the Abay river to deprive the Egyptian people of Nile water became our Ethiopian leaders' top priority and obsession at the cost of depriving the Ethiopian people desperately needed development and food security. Blaming Egypt for our backwardness cannot be used as a substitute for thinking.

[Dark Energy]

Misraq,
Is that really is you ? BTW, Ethiopia does not need to disintegrate itself. It is a nation led by a street thug who enters into the Pentecostal church to preach the Gospel . Eritreans did not take anything that belongs to Ethiopia. Ethiopia is a thirld world version of another Yugoslavia. Unfortunately, Eritrea is led by another thug who belongs to mama Ethiopia. Ones, Eritreans correct that, we can shut down the door on each others’s face and live peacefully for ever more. Goodness……